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W. HUOSMER.

SPOOL CABINET urnmumn FILED JULY 28, 1011.

Patented Nov. 14, 1911-.

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Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. beams, a

citizen of the United States, residin at Vi s, in the county of St. Louis and tate of issouri, have invented a new and useful Spool-Cabinet, of which the following is a specification.

M invention relates to improvements in spoo cabinets, or containers, used in stores for dispensing s 001 thread and similar cylindrical commodities.

The objects of my invention are, first, to so construct a cabinet of this sort, that its contents may be readily received and released; and, second, to provide means to dis charge and remove the ob'ect dis ensed, by a direct operative depression stro e, requiring the use of but one hand.

0 this end, my invention provides an improved releasingv gate and a direct con.- junctively operatin cut-oil gage, applied, spaced and adjuste to permit the release and discharge of the contents of the cabinet in single or otherprescribed quantities and also, means for automatically closing the releasing gate to its normal position, when freed from operative pressure.

To enable others, skilled in the art to which my invention ap ertains, to make and use the same, I wil now describe its construction and operation, reference being had to the accompanying drawin forming a art of this specification, and, 1n whichigure 1 is a vertical. section of my improved spool cabinet; Fig. 2, is ,a fragmen- V -tary view in front elevation of the same;

Fig. '3, is a horizontal sectional view, the u per tportion of said figure beingtaken a ong e line of the upfper roll-way, while the remaining portion 0 the figure is taken along the line of the lower roll-way; Fig. 4, is a plan view, showing a slightlg modified form of a cut-off device, employe in carrying out my invention. a

imilar numerals of reference, refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

1, represents a spool cabinet of the well known construction, having a hinged lid and containing an upper, or receiving spool rollway 2, and the lower, or dischargmg spool roll-way 3. These roll-ways, 2 and 3, conform to an inclined plane, and are so constructed within the cabinet 1, that the lower ends, of the upgpr roll-ways 2 register with and discharge t eir contents into the upper ends of the lower roll-ways 3. The number is a cut-off ga e, mounted uoon the swinging frame 8, 0 which, the discharge gate 6, receiving apron 9, stop 10, and finger-plate 11, in this instance, form an integral part. The cut-ofi' gage 7, is so adjusted on-the frame 8, as to rest in its normal position, above the row of spools 4, at a distance inwardly from the gate 6, suflicient to cut oil, uni ormly, one, or as many of the end spools in the roll-way,as may be desired, by depressing the top of the gate 6, to a plane permitting the spools to pass over it and out upon the apron -9, to the sto 10, from which they may be removed. The ing s 001s in the roll-way 3, are then cut ofi simu taneously, and held back by the cut-off ge 7 which, if a continuous run of the spools from the rollway 3 isdesired, may be u.lspensed with. The principal use, however, of m present invention, will be to discharge t e spools singly. In this connection-it will be noted that the spools, when they are discharged singl lodge against the stop 10. With the hen resting u on; the finger-plate 11 the spool is held by 1ts ends by the thumb and finger and is then readily removed without any danger of soiling the thread.

Another and important feature of my present invention is that it uires the use of but one hand to com lete y operate it. Thus the 'other hand is eft' free for other service, a condition which is very desirable when a clerk is busily eggaged. The swingin frame 8, is mount upon an axle, 12, suitably secured in the cabinet 1, below the rollway 3, in position to afford proper swinging facilities to the frame 8 which, in th1s instance, is applied and operatively secured on the axle 12, b the stride saddle bearin 13, as shown in ig. 1. At the inner end 0 the swingin frame 8, the balance or tilting weight 14,-1s applied, and is of proper size to responsively and automatically swing the frame 8, and hold the mal position.

A modified form of a hinged swinging frame, is also-shown b use of the torsion spring 15, in Fig. 4, a though, any known equivalents, or modified forms and sizes, in

remaingate 6, in a closed norswinging frame terminating at said end with a finger-plate and'carryin'g an overhanging gage proper-1y spacedinwardly from said gate to cut ofi in direct stroke therewith one or more objects at the end of the file in the rollway, the opposite end of said frame being pivotally supported within the cabinet to permit 0 ration of the gate by depression of the ngerlate, and means connected with the frame r closed normal position.

, WILLIAM H. OSMER.

Witnesses! vALvAN'J. GOODBAB,

CHASE MOBSEY.

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